- City:
- Montpelier, VT
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Sanitation and Water Disposal
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
Montpelier’s 40th Annual Report details many roadwork projects undertaken in 1934 with Vermont Emergency Relief Administration (VERA) funds, including: “Marvin Street, grading and putting in stone base”.
Street improvement and sewer construction efforts were continued here in subsequent years by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). In 1939 Marvin St. was “rebuilt from Hubbard to Bingham Street, with tar surfaces.”
Source notes
Annual Report of the City of Montpelier, 1935 (pg. 39).
Annual Report of the City of Montpelier, 1938 (pg. 64).
Annual Report of the City of Montpelier, 1940 (pg. 61).
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on February 22, 2018.
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